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Astronaut

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
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Stage 1 of 2
astron
Greek · ancient
"star"
star, combined with nautes (sailor) to mean star-sailor
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Stage 2 of 2
astronaut
English · 1920s
"a space traveler"
coined for a traveler among the stars, later applied to real space travelers
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